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China, India, Japan and Russia compete for power in Asia ( Copy Right @ Want China Times)

Russia- China Ties( Image courtesy-Xinhua News Agency) China, Japan, India and Russia are competing for power in Asia, boosting their military to defend their interests in the region, while China is also attempting to drive the United States out of the western Pacific to secure its territorial claims, according to Philip Stephens, political columnist for the Financial Times. New partnerships within this dynamic could occur as India swears in its new prime minister, Narendra Modi. According to Stephens, Modi has higher ambitions than his predecessors — to strengthen the nation's power to match China rather than just improve India's economic growth and living standards. Meanwhile, the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who also wants his country to be able to withstand China's rise, hopes Modi will choose to visit Japan when he embarks on his first overseas trip as India's new leader. Japan could provide much-needed technology and investment to spur the Indian

Russia’s Elusive Quest for Influence in Asia ( Copy Right @ The Diplomat, Author: Sergey Radchenko

Image courtesy- Military.com One of the most useful exercises for understanding Russia’s geopolitical dilemmas is to take any of the number of commercial flights from Moscow to Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East. It is a journey of about eight hours, covering thousands of miles and a dozen time zones of virtually uninhabited space – in the words of a 1960s Soviet hit, “a green sea of the taiga.” It really does look like a sea from 30,000 feet, rolling in all directions: forbidding, vast, mesmerizing. For generations Russia has tried to come to terms with its size, sending explorers, colonists, convicts, peasants, soldiers, and Youth Communist league activists to build up islands of “civilization” across Siberia and the Far East. They built cities dilapidated from inception, laid roads that turned to swamps, erected golden church domes and monuments to Lenin. They brought Russia to Asia and made Asia a part of Russia, leaving indelible marks on Russia’s identity, its present d